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motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-23 14:22:31
January 23 2010 14:20 GMT
#21
This isn't the SCOTUS. Who cares about Chill's "precedent?" Why should we worry about what has happened before as opposed to what the correct decision is right at this moment? To me, the correct decision is completely obvious, and once Baezzi's VOD of Game 3 finishes processing I'll make a long post with pictures and as deep analysis as my tiny Starcraft brain can muster, talking about the overwhelming advantage that Jaedong had. I'll also discuss the statistical basis for the argument against granting a regame.

EDIT: the reason i'm posting this here is because that means I'm obligated to write the article and not slack off and not do it
ModeratorGood content always wins.
sjon03
Profile Joined July 2009
United States231 Posts
January 23 2010 14:20 GMT
#22
It seems Jaedong had a clear advantage at that point in the game, but I believe a straight loss would have a lesser effect on FlaSh's mentality for the next game. The thoughts of "what if?" in FlaSh's mind could have played a part in his Game 4 loss, but there is no way of ever truly knowing. I think no matter the outcome of Game 3, everyone can agree that the series would be better off without the power mishap.

Unrelated, can someone explain what thumbing down a map does for the series? Is it if both players thumbs down a certain map, that map won't be played? Thanks in advance.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States44132 Posts
January 23 2010 14:20 GMT
#23
On January 23 2010 23:17 Xxio wrote:
I can't understand how people say giving a win is better than re-doing it.
He could have won, good enough for me! let's just say he won.
Rather than
We don't know so let's do it again.

Jaedong didn't win that game but they gave it to him anyways.

He didn't draw it either. There's no option to return to the situation it was in. Your options are award win, award draw, award loss. You have to pick the one that most closely fits the situation. He was not drawing with Flash at the time of the blackout.
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annYeong(o11)
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada784 Posts
January 23 2010 14:21 GMT
#24
awesome title, i'll have to give this a read through later
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nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
January 23 2010 14:22 GMT
#25
IMO there was no fair decision that could be made that game, forcing a regame on a game that was 99% won by jaedong would have been even more unfair than giving flash the loss for this. Sad but i think this was the least bad decision that could be made
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States44132 Posts
January 23 2010 14:22 GMT
#26
On January 23 2010 23:19 Plexa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2010 23:16 KwarK wrote:
Plexa
You can't say "well they considered doing something really stupid one time so they should totally have done this thing which is marginally less stupid". If they'd decided on a regame in that Bisu July it would have been a travesty. July had a prepared cheese which he couldn't do twice and the game was over. That doesn't mean that anything less of a travesty than that is fine.

... Rainbow vs July

Rainbow cheeses July with some cute goon/reaver timing push
disconnect
game isnt over, regame occurs
July rapes rainbow since his cheese is spent

Fair? I'm not prepared to comment on that. However, this decision IS inconsistent with every other decision kespa has made as far as I am aware of. Hell, let's go back further - YellOw vs Xellos, it happened there too.

About time they started getting their act together then. If they fail to disqualify someone for typing "ppp" when their monitor dies I won't be complaining and bringing up precedent either.
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SuperArc
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Austria7781 Posts
January 23 2010 14:22 GMT
#27
How can Chill say Jaedong didnt have an advantage at that point?
Snow - future of protoss! :) Nada = baller
Alethios
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
New Zealand2765 Posts
January 23 2010 14:23 GMT
#28
On January 23 2010 23:20 sjon03 wrote:
It seems Jaedong had a clear advantage at that point in the game, but I believe a straight loss would have a lesser effect on FlaSh's mentality for the next game. The thoughts of "what if?" in FlaSh's mind could have played a part in his Game 4 loss, but there is no way of ever truly knowing. I think no matter the outcome of Game 3, everyone can agree that the series would be better off without the power mishap.

Unrelated, can someone explain what thumbing down a map does for the series? Is it if both players thumbs down a certain map, that map won't be played? Thanks in advance.

A map which has been thumbs down will not be played twice.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
NovaTheFeared
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States7232 Posts
January 23 2010 14:23 GMT
#29
Lol Chill doesn't think jaedong had an advantage?
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Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8093 Posts
January 23 2010 14:23 GMT
#30
Agree with chill, What ret said about the maps though i have to disagree with, yeah jaedong overcame the map imbalace but thats just the badluck of crashing on that map, as long as both players have a chance to win then neither should be given a loss its just unfair
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JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
January 23 2010 14:23 GMT
#31
On January 23 2010 23:20 motbob wrote:
This isn't the SCOTUS. Who cares about Chill's "precedent?" Why should we worry about what has happened before as opposed to what the correct decision is right at this moment? To me, the correct decision is completely obvious, and once Baezzi's VOD of Game 3 finishes processing I'll make a long post with pictures talking about the overwhelming advantage that Jaedong had and the statistical basis for the argument against granting a regame.

Precedent matters because it's a strong indication of what the community/players/referees have considered to be fair in similar situations in the past. We can look to those decisions to remove ourselves a bit from particularities of this situation which might bias us one way or another.

Bottom line is: disconnects have usually been handled X way in the past, instead of Y way. This is good (but obviously not conclusive) evidence that X way is superior to Y way and more accurately reflects the community ethos/our conception of fairness.
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PoP
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
France15446 Posts
January 23 2010 14:24 GMT
#32
I agree with ret and I do believe the decision was the correct one. Jaedong did have that game and I the fairest thing to do in such a situation is to give the game to whoever had the advantage when such a thing happens.

That's something KeSPA should have explicitly stated in their rules though: "Should any event occur that prevents a game from being completed the regular way, and provided the game is not in the early stages, the win will be handed to whoever had an advantage after a careful review by the referees. A draw will be decided if the judges cannot determine which player was ahead blah blah blah."
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29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5725 Posts
January 23 2010 14:24 GMT
#33
i agree with the experts' opinions except the part about the T favored map part. even if it's favored towards one side, it doesn't mean he deserves the win more.
4v4 is a battle of who has the better computer.
J1.au
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Australia3596 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-23 14:26:31
January 23 2010 14:25 GMT
#34
Looking back on this event, I hope there is one thing we can all agree on: this is all MBC's fault.
Holgerius
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden16951 Posts
January 23 2010 14:26 GMT
#35
<3 Chill!
I believe in the almighty Grötslev! -- I am never serious and you should never believe a thing I say. Including the previous sentence.
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-23 14:28:16
January 23 2010 14:26 GMT
#36
On January 23 2010 23:22 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2010 23:19 Plexa wrote:
On January 23 2010 23:16 KwarK wrote:
Plexa
You can't say "well they considered doing something really stupid one time so they should totally have done this thing which is marginally less stupid". If they'd decided on a regame in that Bisu July it would have been a travesty. July had a prepared cheese which he couldn't do twice and the game was over. That doesn't mean that anything less of a travesty than that is fine.

... Rainbow vs July

Rainbow cheeses July with some cute goon/reaver timing push
disconnect
game isnt over, regame occurs
July rapes rainbow since his cheese is spent

Fair? I'm not prepared to comment on that. However, this decision IS inconsistent with every other decision kespa has made as far as I am aware of. Hell, let's go back further - YellOw vs Xellos, it happened there too.

About time they started getting their act together then. If they fail to disqualify someone for typing "ppp" when their monitor dies I won't be complaining and bringing up precedent either.
At least in that case the players knew what was going to happen. Part of having a good rule set is being able to interpret the result before the ref give his decision. There should be no surprises when that ref opens his/her mouth. That situation was dumb, but it was due to a shit ruleset. Everyone on KT expected regame because that's what has been done before - hence why they were so pissed when there wasn't one. Now if you want to argue that's a bad rule, fine, but since nothing had changed the ruling is justified. If they had called regame, hwaseung probably wouldn't have walked out (they would have been pissed though most likely) but they would understand the ruling because that's what's happened before.

If you want to go and change the rules willy-nilly in the middle of the biggest final in history then what faith can player or coaches have in any KeSPA ruling? Hell, why have a ruleset to begin with.
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Alethios
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
New Zealand2765 Posts
January 23 2010 14:28 GMT
#37
On January 23 2010 23:23 JWD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2010 23:20 motbob wrote:
This isn't the SCOTUS. Who cares about Chill's "precedent?" Why should we worry about what has happened before as opposed to what the correct decision is right at this moment? To me, the correct decision is completely obvious, and once Baezzi's VOD of Game 3 finishes processing I'll make a long post with pictures talking about the overwhelming advantage that Jaedong had and the statistical basis for the argument against granting a regame.

Precedent matters because it's a strong indication of what the community/players/referees have considered to be fair in similar situations in the past. We can look to those decisions to remove ourselves a bit from particularities of this situation which might bias us one way or another.

Bottom line is: disconnects have usually been handled X way in the past, instead of Y way. This is good (but obviously not conclusive) evidence that X way is superior to Y way and more accurately reflects the community ethos/our conception of fairness.

I think there is a point to be made for precedent. But I don't think this is it. The community's concept of fairness had no input into kespa's decision making in the past.

Precedent is important because regardless of whether individual decisions are fair... at least the same policy is being implemented to everybody equally.

At the same time, as Kwark says.. Kespa have made some terrible decisions in the past and it's about time they got their act together.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
SuperArc
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Austria7781 Posts
January 23 2010 14:28 GMT
#38
On January 23 2010 23:26 Plexa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2010 23:22 KwarK wrote:
On January 23 2010 23:19 Plexa wrote:
On January 23 2010 23:16 KwarK wrote:
Plexa
You can't say "well they considered doing something really stupid one time so they should totally have done this thing which is marginally less stupid". If they'd decided on a regame in that Bisu July it would have been a travesty. July had a prepared cheese which he couldn't do twice and the game was over. That doesn't mean that anything less of a travesty than that is fine.

... Rainbow vs July

Rainbow cheeses July with some cute goon/reaver timing push
disconnect
game isnt over, regame occurs
July rapes rainbow since his cheese is spent

Fair? I'm not prepared to comment on that. However, this decision IS inconsistent with every other decision kespa has made as far as I am aware of. Hell, let's go back further - YellOw vs Xellos, it happened there too.

About time they started getting their act together then. If they fail to disqualify someone for typing "ppp" when their monitor dies I won't be complaining and bringing up precedent either.
At least in that case the players knew what was going to happen. Part of having a good rule set is being able to interpret the result before the ref give his decision. There should be no surprises when that ref opens his/her mouth. That situation was dumb, but it was due to a shit ruleset. Everyone on KT expected regame because that's what has been done before. If they had called regame, hwaseung probably wouldn't have walked out (they would have been pissed though most likely) but they would understand the ruling because that's what's happened before.

Now if you want to go and change the rules willy-nilly in the middle of the biggest final in history then what faith can player or coaches have in any KeSPA ruling? Hell, why have a ruleset to begin with.


Someone said accoring Kespa rules if something like this happens the refs will have to decide the winner.

So they didnt just change the rule on the fly
Snow - future of protoss! :) Nada = baller
Salteador Neo
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Andorra5591 Posts
January 23 2010 14:29 GMT
#39
The game was awesome, too bad it ended that way.
Revolutionist fan
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
January 23 2010 14:30 GMT
#40
On January 23 2010 23:28 SuperArc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2010 23:26 Plexa wrote:
On January 23 2010 23:22 KwarK wrote:
On January 23 2010 23:19 Plexa wrote:
On January 23 2010 23:16 KwarK wrote:
Plexa
You can't say "well they considered doing something really stupid one time so they should totally have done this thing which is marginally less stupid". If they'd decided on a regame in that Bisu July it would have been a travesty. July had a prepared cheese which he couldn't do twice and the game was over. That doesn't mean that anything less of a travesty than that is fine.

... Rainbow vs July

Rainbow cheeses July with some cute goon/reaver timing push
disconnect
game isnt over, regame occurs
July rapes rainbow since his cheese is spent

Fair? I'm not prepared to comment on that. However, this decision IS inconsistent with every other decision kespa has made as far as I am aware of. Hell, let's go back further - YellOw vs Xellos, it happened there too.

About time they started getting their act together then. If they fail to disqualify someone for typing "ppp" when their monitor dies I won't be complaining and bringing up precedent either.
At least in that case the players knew what was going to happen. Part of having a good rule set is being able to interpret the result before the ref give his decision. There should be no surprises when that ref opens his/her mouth. That situation was dumb, but it was due to a shit ruleset. Everyone on KT expected regame because that's what has been done before. If they had called regame, hwaseung probably wouldn't have walked out (they would have been pissed though most likely) but they would understand the ruling because that's what's happened before.

Now if you want to go and change the rules willy-nilly in the middle of the biggest final in history then what faith can player or coaches have in any KeSPA ruling? Hell, why have a ruleset to begin with.


Someone said accoring Kespa rules if something like this happens the refs will have to decide the winner.

So they didnt just change the rule on the fly
Then they must be deciding what constitutes over differently than before.
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